WowAce

What version of Grid2  are you using (Version is displayed in General/About Tab) ? 2.5.2

What game client version, classic or retail, windows or mac and language are you using ? 10.2.0, retail, windows 11, english

What steps will reproduce the problem? player death

  
Did you try having Grid2 as the only enabled addon and everything else disabled? yes

Was it working in a previous version? If yes, which was the last good one? yes, don't remember exactly but at least a month or two ago.

Do you have an error log of what happened? If you don't see any errors, make sure that error reporting is enabled (`/console scriptErrors 1`) or install [BugSack](https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/BugSack). it does not give a lua error

Please provide any additional information below.

I have the frames configured to show class color and whenever the player is not 100 % HP, the lost portion of their HP is a dark background. The problem I encountered is that when a player dies, their frame does not update. For example, if a player is at 50 % HP, the left half of their frame is their class color, the right half is a dark background (missing HP). If a player takes enough damage to kill them at that point, in one shot, their frame does not update to full dark. It stays as 50 % class color, 50 % dark. This issue occurs at any percentage. Ideally if the player dies, their frame should be all dark.

In which context is happening this ? dungeons/pvp/open word ? is this happening always ? How often does this happen ?

If the health is not updated, the game is skipping events and not notifying health changes, this can happen due to a not good internet connection or addons using to much cpu, or a bug in the game.

Try changing the  health update frequency:

1. Goto Statuses/Health&Healths/health-current/Update Frequency

2. Change the option from normal to instant (or from instant to normal if you were already using the instant option).

3 You can check the option "Show dead as having full health" too.

hey Michael, thank you for your answer. I had already tried both normal/ instant settings. The show dead as having full health option really isn't what I want.

It happens in any context, whenever I'm grouped. I have noticed sometimes it does show correctly at 0 %, but about 90 % of the time it has this issue.

Am I able to share my profile somehow and you/ someone imports and tries to reproduce it, to see what setting could be the cause? It's strange because I have not played with any settings and this issue started out of nowhere.

Internet/ CPU is also not the issue for sure.

I uploaded a screenshot of the issue. I had about 80 % hp, died from fall damage immediately after and the frame stays as when I had 80 %: https://ibb.co/dbKfZsr

The reason this is very distracting is because it doesn't make it evident the player is dead unless I actually look at the frame text.

Thanks!

UPDATE: although this doesn't really fix the issue, I found a solution by settings the Statuses-Combat-Death-General color to full black, and the Indicators for this status I chose Background. If I set the color to anything other than full black, it will still show evidence of the issue, however with full black it's not noticeable.

Send me your profile in text format please (You can export the profile from profiles tab).

The screenshot has no sense,  the screenshot displays a 0% health text and a 80% healtbar, but both indicators are feeded from the same source so its should not be possible to have different measurements, maybe some lua error is happening when the addon is trying to update the health bar.

Did you enable  lua errors  ?

To enable lua errors you have to type into chat:

/console scriptErrors 1

Hi Michael,

You can find the profile text here: https://justpaste.it/cigfi

I reverted the black color setting so you can reproduce the issue exactly as shown in the screenshot.

thanks!

Update to Grid2 2.5.4 beta. Report back if this version has fixed the issue.

 Hi Michael, I cannot find any 2.5.4. I updated to 2.5.3 beta but the issue can still be reproduced there.

 Hi again! Updated to 2.5.4 and the issue seems resolved. I'll test in a dungeon environment and return to you to confirm if it's fixed for sure.

Thank you!

One last thing, your bars setup is difficult to follow, you could simplify the setup using only one multibar indicator instead of 3 different bar indicators.